{"id":1260,"date":"2009-11-25T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T02:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2009-11-25T02:00:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T02:00:33","slug":"judiciary-expenses-claims-rise-by-3-million-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1260","title":{"rendered":"Judiciary expenses claims &#8216;rise by \u00a33 million in two years&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-1020\" style=\"width:80px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/price_gerald_judge4.jpg\" alt=\"The cost of the judiciary continues to rise\" width=\"80\" height=\"100\" \/>\r\n\t<div>The cost of the judiciary continues to rise<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Expenses claims by judges and magistrates have increased by \u00a33m in the last two years, new figures show.<\/p>\n<p>The judiciary claimed \u00a332 million this year on luxuries including first-class train tickets, air fares, hotel stays and eating out, figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act disclose.<\/p>\n<p>The sum also includes compensation paid to judges who buy homes closer to the courts where they work, and nightly allowances of \u00a332 when they choose to stay at their second homes.<\/p>\n<p>The data, obtained by The Independent, shows that the expenses bill for the 3,679 fee-paid and salaried judges for this year was \u00a33,676,333 \u2013 a rise of more than \u00a3500,000 in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>The Indpendent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/lawandorder\/6634026\/Judiciary-expenses-claims-rise-by-3-million-in-two-years.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of the judiciary continues to rise Expenses claims by judges and magistrates have increased by \u00a33m in the last two years, new figures show. The judiciary claimed \u00a332 million this year on luxuries including first-class train tickets, air fares, hotel stays and eating out, figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act disclose. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}